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Now the New Testament mentions “Syria” eight times.
It’s good to remember that Jesus spent some of His ministry in Syria.
And his fame went throughout all OUAYRHEIMS$7CVersion$3D2011-06-02T15:38:35Z">Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:
Luke 2:2..
This enrolling was first made by Cyrinus, the governor of OUAYRHEIMS$7CVersion$3D2011-06-02T15:38:35Z">Syria.
Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in OUAYRHEIMS$7CVersion$3D2011-06-02T15:38:35Z">Syria and Cilicia, greeting.
And he went through OUAYRHEIMS$7CVersion$3D2011-06-02T15:38:35Z">Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches, commanding them to keep the precepts of the apostles and the ancients.
But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking his leave of the brethren, sailed thence into OUAYRHEIMS$7CVersion$3D2011-06-02T15:38:35Z">Syria (and with him Priscilla and Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae. For he had a vow.
Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into OUAYRHEIMS$7CVersion$3D2011-06-02T15:38:35Z">Syria. So he took a resolution to return through Macedonia.
And when we had discovered Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed into OUAYRHEIMS$7CVersion$3D2011-06-02T15:38:35Z">Syria, and came to Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
Afterwards, I came into the regions of OUAYRHEIMS$7CVersion$3D2011-06-02T15:38:35Z">Syria and Cilicia.
Christ traveled in Syria. Christ appointed Peter as Pope in Syria. Saint Paul converted there. Early Christian lived there. Pray for Syria.
I explain the significance of why Christ appointed Peter in Syria at Caesarea Philippi. Caesarea Philippi (now Golan Heights) was the place of a shrine to Caesar as God. Christ appointed Peter in this location so as to associate Peter’s ministry to Rome.
Christ took the Apostles on a field trip to a place where Caesar was worshiped and then instituted his Vicar there. This geographically linked Peter’s ministry with the Roman mission to displace the Caesar and adopt the Empire for the purposes of the God’s kingdom.